Born Dec. 26, 1947 in Madrid, Spain. Economist, publishing film criticism since 1966 in several newspapers and most specialized magazines in Spain ("Nuestro Cine", "Dirigido por...", "Casablanca","Manhattan", "Cuadernos de la Filmoteca de la Generalitat Valenciana", "Nosferatu", "Viridiana", "Banda aparte", "Nickel Odeón"), as well as some in Peru ("Hablemos de Cine","La Gran Ilusión") and Colombia ("Ojo al Cine"), plus contributions to "Revue Belge du Cinéma", "Trafic" and others, including cultural and general information magazines ("Revista de Occidente", "El Urogallo", "El Rey Lagarto"), daily newspapers ("El Noticiero Universal", "Diario 16", "El Mundo"), and their cultural supplements (presently “El Mundo”’s "El Cultural"), radio (Radio 2 and lately on the weekly broadcast space "El séptimo vicio" at Radio Nacional’s Radio 3) and TV (since 1995 to 2005 as regular contributor to the weekly space "¡Qué grande es el cine!” on TVE’s 2nd Channel, in 2009 to Telemadrid's space "Cine en blanco y negro"), as well as on the Internet ("Senses of Cinema", "Rouge", "Undercurrent", "Miradas de Cine", etc.).
Screenwriter for several TV narrative series in 1972-1975, several for "Ficciones" and one for "Los libros" ("Platero y yo" de Juan Ramón Jiménez).
Author of the books Manuel Mur Oti: Las raíces del drama (Cinemateca Portuguesa), Unforgiven/Manhattan (Dirigido por...) y Leo McCarey: Sonrisas y lágrimas (Nickel Odeón) and a booklet on Jacques Tati (Festival de Alcalá de Henares). Co-authored or co-edited and contributed to several collective efforts: two on Jean-Luc Godard, Max Ophuls, two on Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, the Western, King Vidor, Jacques Ledoux, two on Manoel de Oliveira, Raúl Ruiz, Roberto Rossellini, Samuel Fuller, Jacques Tourneur, Gregory LaCava, Mikio Naruse, John M. Stahl, Carol Reed, Wim Wenders, José Luis Borau, Chaplin’s “Limelight”, Spanish short films, Japanese cinema, several on Spanish Cinema ans Spanish Film Criticism, "La Ville au Cinéma" (Ed.Cahiers du Cinéma"),etc. Foreword to the published script of Maravillas by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón & Epilogue to Tiempo de vivir, tiempo de revivir by Antonio Drove (mainly about Douglas Sirk).
Translated from the French Introduction à une vraie histoire du cinéma (Musidora) plus 5 screenplays (Alianza) by Jean-Luc Godard, and from the English Claude Chabrol (Fundamentos) by Michael Walker & Robin Wood and Fritz Lang in America (Fundamentos) by Peter Bogdanovich, plus C.S. Lewis’s novel The Screwtape Letters as Cartas del diablo a su sobrino (Las cartas de Escrutopo) (Colección Austral, Espasa-Calpe; reprinted by RIALP).
A short story published in Revista Hiperión. Taught a course on Classic Cinema at ECAM (Madrid Film School). Lectured on film at several Universities such as UIMP (at Santander, Cuenca, Sevilla, Valencia, etc.), the Facultad de C.C. de la Información de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, la Cátedra de Cine de la Universidad de Valladolid, and cine-clubs at Bilbao, Olot y Sabadell, Fundación Marcelino Botín (Santander), las Universidades Murcia, Almería, Málaga, Santiago de Compostela, Palma de Mallorca, Alcalá de Henares, Cajas de Ahorros of Burgos, Alicante, Santander, Tenerife, etc., Centro Cultural de la Villa de Madrid, Semana de Cine de Barcelona, Fundación "Arte y Cultura" de Madrid, etc.
Jury at the Valladolid Film Festival, CIGA Award at San Sebastián Film Festival, several editions of Premio Luis Buñuel de Cortometrajes awarded by the Ayuntamiento de Madrid, Premio Villa de Madrid, Quinzaine du Cinéma Espagnol at Annecy. Curator of the "Madrid en el cine" retrospective in 1992 and member of the Consulting Board for film programmation of Spain’s Pavillion at Expo‘98 in Lisbon, España Nuevo Milenio and Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales.
Former Director (November 1986-December 1988) of Filmoteca Española (the Spanish film archive) and Director General (Dec. 1988-Jan. 1990) of ICAA (Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales) at the Ministerio de Cultura.
Presently writing a book on Otto Preminger and another on Luis Buñuel to be titled Otro Buñuel (Another Buñuel).
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